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. (No Model.)

B. Q. DARE.

SEAL PRESS.

No. 340,768. Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

N. PUERS. PholoLRhngrnpher. wzlihlvgiun. D. C,

,UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

EMORY o. DARE,

or SHELBYVILLE, INDIANA, Assienoaro HIMSELF AND GHARLES MORRISON, or SAME PLACE.

SEAL-PRESS.

EPEOIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,768, dated April 27, 1886.

(No model.)

T at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMORY Q. DARR, of Shelbyville, in the county of Shelby and State of Indiana, have invented anew and Improved Seal-Press, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to the construction of that form of seal-press used more particularly by notaries, corporations, 850., the object of the invention being to provide a light portable press which may be carried in the pocket, but which will be efficient in operation; and to this end the invention consists of the combination of parts, including their construction, is substantially as hereinafter set forth ,and pointed out inthe claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is aside View of myimproved form of seal-press, the parts being represented in the positions they assume after the spring has been retracted and the hammer is about to fall, the side of the hammer being removed to disclose the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the device, representing the parts as they appear just after theham mer has fallen. Fig. 3 is a view representing the parts as they appear after the trigger has been released.

Referring now to the general construction illustratedin the drawings above referred to, A represents an instrument, which is substantially the same as the butt or handle of an ordinary form of self-cocking pistol, a a being the frame; I), the spriug,which is secured to the frame bya screw, 0, and runs downward from its point of attachment to the base of the frame, being provided at its lowest point with a lug, d, which engages with a lug, (1, formed on the frame, and from this point the spring is carried upward and forward to engage with the heel of the tripping-dog B; to which the spring is connected by a link, 6. The tripping-dog B is pivotally connected to the heel of the hammer C, said hammer being in turn pivotally connected to the frame a by a pivotserew, f. The forward end of the trippingdog 13 is provided with a catch-tooth, g, and

back of this tooth there is a prominence, h, upon the under side'of the trippingdog. The trigger D is pivotally connected to the frame in position so that its catch-tooth'i will engage with the catch-tooth g of the tripping- 5 dog B, and back of the edge of the tooth there is a prominent cam-face, 7c. Upon the end of the hammer G there is secured a die, E, arranged to register with a second die, E, carried by the handle, the dies, as usual, being male and female dies.

Such being the general construction of the seal-press, the operationis as follows: The instrument is grasped by the operator and the trigger D retracted,which movement will carry forward the heel of the hammer,and consequently raise the die carried by said hammer, so that the paper on which the seal is to be impressed may be inserted between the two dies. After the paper is inserted a continued retraction of the trigger (Z will cause its cam face 76 to strike against the prominence h of the trippingdog B, thereby raising the tripping-dog and disengaging the catch-teeth g and 2', so that the lower edge of the catch-tooth 7 5 9 will be free to ride back over the canrface k, as shown best in Fig. 2, this movement of the parts being brought about by the action of the spring I). \Vhen the trigger is released, the spring will act upon the tripping-dog, 8o forcing the lower edge of the tooth 9 down ward, and throwing the thumb-piece of the trigger forward and restoring the parts to the position shown in Fig. 3.

Such a seal-press as I have described may be made verylight, and consequently will be easily carried from place to place, thereby avoiding the inconvenience of carrying a cumbersome instrument,such as are the seal presses usually employed by nofaries, whose duties often 0 require them to take depositions,to which their seals must be affixed, away from their offices.

Although I have illustrated the handle of my seal-press as in the form of an ordinary pistol, it will of coursebe understood that any 9 5 other form which could be readily grasped would answer my purpose.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 10o 1. In a seal-press, the combination, with a 2. In a seal-press, the combination of the handle carrying a die, of a hammer controlled following elements: frame a, dies E E, ham- :0 bya spring and carrying acorresponding die, mer 0, spring I), trippingdog B, link 6, and and an actuating mechanism consisting of a trigger D, substantiallyas described.

5 dog engaging with a trigger and linked to said EMORY Q. DARR.

spring and pivoted to the hammer interme- \Vitnesses: diately of the trigger and spring, substantially E. L, FLOYD,

as described. 4 H. O. MQRRIsON. 

